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Lakewood Early Childhood Center

Lakewood Township · Ocean County · Elementary school
Grades PK–K
Last reported enrollment in 2024-25 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.

These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ. The attendance-action row follows NJDOE’s published school field and does not prove current compliance.

Enrollment over time

In its last year on record, 2024-25, it enrolled 248 students. Enrollment was roughly steady since 2013-14 (247). It peaked at 286 in 2015-16.

students 075150225300 2481998200320082013201820232025

Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2013-14 and 2024-25 was Hispanic students — 84% then, 64% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 764%31%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or moreNative Am.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the largest shift among the district’s six elementary schools — larger than 85% of Ocean County elementary schools. The district as a whole shifted just 1.1 over the same years, making this school an outlier. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
White −14.1·Hispanic +9.8·Black +3.9

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2024-25, 85.1% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010092%91.3%85.1%2013201820232024
This schooldistrict overalldistrict elementary schools

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district elementary schools, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →